Fast Track: FDA User Fees: Do Faster Review Times Justify the Financial Burden?
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently began requiring applicants to pay significant user fees when filing applications in connection with new medical devices and biologics. Such user fees have long been required for drug-related applications, and now also are required for applications related to devices and biologics. In theory, user fees enable FDA to speed up application review time,...Medical education to sky rocket: in terms of fees!
After the IIM's, it is now medical colleges all set to shock parents of modest means and desirous of children becoming doctors//. This goes for people based in Karnataka where the fee of private medical colleges is extremely high for 2006-07 session. The respite comes through the Fee Fixation Committee headed by Justice H Rangavittalachar, which has reduced it drastically, which...Charging Car Park Fees From Cancer Patients Is Morally Wrong, Says Macmillan Cancer Relief
Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act have revealed that hospitals are raking in huge amounts courtesy charging patients// for the use of car parks. The BBC reports that trusts had made up to £1.5 million a year by charging for this service. The hospitals, which earned the maximum revenue, were large ones with a big list of patients. The Department of Health figures show...MoH Considering Hiking Fees, Private Institutes Are Worried
Private health institutions in the Emirates are concerned with the proposal of the Ministry of Health to hike the fees for various medical services in the country.// "A committee has been set up to review fees charged for different health services the ministry provides for the private medical sector. This includes the licensing and renewal of licenses for doctors and technical medical s...Doctors to Reveal Gap Fees Charges to Patients
The doctors have been forced to disclose details about their out of pocket expenses following radical overhaul of health insurance premiums// by the Federal Government. In an attempt to encourage young people to take out private health cover, it has been further planned to abolish the two five percent lifetime surcharge on premiums. The new plan which would be accompanied by the sale...Elderly in Dilemma As Care Home Fees Surge in UK
Help the Aged charity in the UK has found that care home fees has increased by over 50 percent in the last five years in the UK//. But in the concurrent period basic state pension has risen by only 21.5 percent. The charity said that the care home fees is bound to jump by another 25 percent by the end of this month and fears that many elderly people will not be able to cope with such...